#apotropaic

• Antipalagă — An extremely rare term from Romanian popular beliefs and superstitions, designating an archaic ritual, an incantation, or an apotropaic object utilized by rural communities to ward off, counteract, or scatter hail, violent storms, and destructive clouds looming over crops.
• Apotropaic — An object, symbol, ritual, amulet, or magical formula used since ancestral times to repel evil influences, ward off malevolent spirits, and neutralize curses or the evil eye. As an adjective, it describes any decorative or cultural element invested with a symbolic function of divine or magical protection against dark forces.